r/Boise 19h ago

Question Anyone know what’s goin on with the fighter jets flying over?

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u/Prestigious_Leg_7117 18h ago

Air National Guard at Gowen Field (parallel to Boise Airport). The Guard do the majority of training and certifications to stay current in their duty assignments on the weekend. They may fly joint trainings with Mountain Home Air Force Base at the same time. The Guard is primarlly an A10 Warthog base, though it does have a good set of helicopters as well. The Mountain Home AFB is a F15 fighter squadron. Soooooo... sometimes you see all sorts of craft in the sky.

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u/_FSMV_ 17h ago

Thank you! I was curious, I’ve been here 4 months and haven’t seen em before

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u/Thanks_Pitiful 17h ago

Today the loud ones are F-35s

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u/splitminds 19h ago

Jets train at Gowen Field.

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u/betterbub 19h ago

How long is the train?

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u/jurisnipper 18h ago

Long enough to leave tracks.

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u/I_hate_topick_aname 18h ago

Emitting EW and chem trails to make your kids gay 🏳️‍🌈. Especially the F35’s!

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u/ESLcroooow Lives In A Potato 19h ago

Smoke Plume Surveillance Tours. Pretty common this time of year. 

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u/garysaidwhat 18h ago

They're fending off the Huns, son.

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u/Think_Machine1084 15h ago

Just the sound of your tax dollars at work

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u/ID_Poobaru 18h ago edited 15h ago

There’s a national guard base at the airport and it’s normal to see them

u/chartreusey_geusey 7h ago

There is not one but two military air bases in the immediate regional area that exists to maintain and train multiple squadrons of fighter jets.

For the rest of your time in Boise (and literally any city in the US that is within 200 miles of a military base with a runway), the answer to your question “What’s going on with the fighter jets flying over?” will almost always be:

Training. They are doing regular degular training flights. If you hear them a lot more often or they sound closer for a couple weeks each year? They are doing some sort of visiting fighter squadron training exercise and those are just more jets or different louder jets. If they seem to be happening less often? They are not doing training exercises with a visiting squadron. If it sounds like a bunch of different kinds of jets/planes of all sizes flying over for one weekend? That’s not training—that’s the air show. Stadium flyovers? Jokes on you, those are training exercises.

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u/Ok-Arm-362 18h ago

air national guard training

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u/kforhiel 18h ago

Martial law

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u/ShenmeNamaeSollich 18h ago

+1 purely for not spelling it “Marshall.”

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u/boisefun8 17h ago

Or ‘marital’

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u/kforhiel 16h ago

Never heard of em

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u/hummun323 17h ago

Tell me you're not from here without telling me

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u/_FSMV_ 17h ago

I am not from here, I was just curious damn

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u/Ok-Replacement9595 18h ago

It is the scheduled "show of force" you know to keep the rabble from getting any ideas on this day of protest.